Sri Lankan Cuisine

Sri Lankan cuisine is sure to please every type of foodie, including those who are vegetarians and/or love spicy foods!

In spite of its tiny size, Sri Lanka boasts an amazing variety of food and styles of cooking. The island has a rich heritage of indigenous dishes and its regional cooking is strongly individual and varied. For example, Kandyan Sinhalese cooking, with its emphasis on hill country vegetables and fruits; coastal cooking, making the best of the abundant seafood with which the land is blessed; Tamil cooking, closely linked to that of southern India, which is especially prevalent in Jaffna, in the north. Sri Lanka’s  cuisine is hot and spicy, with lashings of rice and coconut milk, and plenty of tropical fruit to refresh the palate at the end of a meal.

Visit to the Sri Lankan jungles is to enter a whole new world 

where nature has largely stayed still.

Despite its relatively small size, Sri Lanka possesses a high level of biodiversity due to its wide range of topographic and climatic variation. 13% of Sri Lanka conserved as national parks, reserves, sanctuaries and jungle corridors.

From time immemorial Sri Lanka has had a sparkling reputation for highly treasured gems.

Sri Lanka became known as Ratna Deepa(The Island of Gems). Nature in her bounty has chosen the bosom of Sri Lanka to enshrine some of her rarest treasures.

The Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya

The Royal Botanical Gardens in Peradeniya is 06 kms from Kandy.It is reputed as one of the best and biggest gardens in the island and the best in the island.

 

The Gardens date back to the Kandyan kingdom, when they were used as royal pleasure grounds. However, it was soon after the British seized the Kandyan Kingdom that they were established in 1821; primarily to introduce coffee trees and various other tropical plants of economic importance to the region. Even after it took on a more botanical emphasis in the 1840s, the garden remained a center for horticultural activities. Under the directorship of the botanist George H.K. Thwaites, the garden played a pivotal role in establishing the country’s flourishing tea industry in the late 1870s. Thwaites also brought in and cultivated the Brazilian rubber tree, which became a crop producer vital to Sri Lanka’s economy. The botanical collection has developed into one of the finest in the region.